Battle of Antietam

Carnifex Ferry is not Gettysburg. It's not Antietam. It's not Shiloh. It was a little-known battle early in the Civil War that helped West Virginia break away from Virginia and become the 35th state. The battle on Sept. 10, 1861, pitted 5,000 Union troops led by Brig. Gen. William S. Rosecrans against 2,000 Confederate troops directed by Brig. Gen. John B. Floyd. The Union troops forced the Confederates to abandon an entrenched position on the Patterson farm. The site was called Camp Gauley by the Confederates. Floyd retreated down an old roadway that led to a ferry, crossed the Gauley River and took his troops eastward to Lewisburg. The battlefield overlooks the Gauley...

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